Young's Special London Ale Yeast

[michaelcocks]

Does anyone know if the bottle conditioned yeast they advertise on the youngs special london ale is suitable for culturing up ?
(ie is it the strain the brew with?)
Thanks

 

[boybrewer]

Does anyone know if the bottle conditioned yeast they advertise on the youngs special london ale is suitable for culturing up ?
(ie is it the strain the brew with?)
Thanks

Try Jims Beer Forum thats a pommy one they would have a better idea if not just e-mail the brewery


Cheers
Beerbelly

 

[dbod]

Does anyone know if the bottle conditioned yeast they advertise on the youngs special london ale is suitable for culturing up ?
(ie is it the strain the brew with?)
Thanks

Be interested to know too, a nice drop and the last BC English Bitter left round my way AFAIK
Haven't seen Hen's Tooth in a long time now.

 

[Murcluf]

I reckon make a small starter and see if it is alive first and if so and all is good I'd build it up from there....

 

[Wolfy]

Does anyone know if the bottle conditioned yeast they advertise on the youngs special london ale is suitable for culturing up ?
(ie is it the strain the brew with?)

Someone on the UK forums posted that they asked Young's and Wells about the yeast and this was the email reply:
"The yeast present in the bottle conditioned beers is the same as is used to brew Youngs Beers, and is a S.cerevisiae variety"